From CQ Politics/Spy Talk:
U.S. and European officials have been at war over the wording of the Geneva Convention ever since American forces invaded Afghanistan in late 2001 and began rounding up terrorist suspects and Taliban fighters.
Maybe it's time for a new Geneva Convention for the age of terrorism.
At an international conference on terrorism in Italy last month, European officials heatedly denounced Bush administration detention and interrogation practices, arguing, as one put it, that the United States had to "come home" to the rules of land warfare agreed upon by most of the world's governments in 1949.
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My Comment: The original wording in the first Geneva Convention for cases like this (terrorist acts) were vague for a reason .... there was no consensus on how such prisoners who conduct terrorist acts should be classified and treated.
As for a future "Geneva Convention" .... I doubt it will be successful. There is a great disconnect between bureaucrats and human rights lawyers .... and the citizens who vote for the politicians who must eventually ratify any future Geneva Convention Treaty. The general public have a revulsion for mass murderers .... and will never support any politician or government that will enact guidelines that will provide "legal protection" for the men who conduct them. If there was general public acceptance for a new Geneva Convention, politicians and governments would have ratified such a new treaty a long time ago.